Protected: “A man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do.”
... and sometimes that's loaning money to a friend, even when the word "loan" is probably in quotes. It's a chunk of change. But it's a small price to pay if I get to sleep soundly at night.
Protected: Sometimes it’s hard
It was a rough scanning session tonight. The only way I could get through it was to fantasize that, somehow, doing all of this was going to get me laid. I'm usually not that crude. But scanning is usually not this difficult. Isaac, Isaac, Isaac... why did you have to print out so much stuff on fan-fold…
Protected: Fingers crossed
Yesterday I did my regular exercise walk. This morning, I didn't feel any back pain.My back is hurting now, after scanning for 90 minutes, but still... there's hope!
A Witch Does Passover – 2011
There were only four people at the seder last night, but we discovered that the quality of a seder is not a function of the number of people. We had an awesome time.
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Moments of Isaac
I've working on a biography of Isaac Bonewits. As a writer, Isaac apparently never threw away any piece of paper with his own writing on it, nor any correspondence he received. I'm going through boxes of his files, scanning what I can, before shipping the files to the archives of the University of California at Santa Barbara.Some…
Time and Tala
I’ve had a chance to run a couple of Argothald expeditions. It’s been great.
I’d been concerned that my skills as a gamesmaster would be rusty after more than two decades. I needn’t have worried. While there are some issues with the rules system, they’re relatively minor. What’s important is that the players have fun.
Lego Star Wars – Archived review
I know this one would probably be considered simple to the more dedicated console gamers. For me, it just about fits my abilities as a gamer: The puzzles are not too tough, the combat is usually forgiving, and most of the platforming is not more than I can handle. The game actually gets easier as you go…